Is there some easy to use program in Ubuntu that can scan many pages straight into a PDF file?
Ubuntu – Scan many pages straight into a PDF
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I've answered my own question!
Selecting Scan > Text now creates PDF files by default that are compressed. My preference for 'Text' is persisted, meaning that I can now quickly perform many scans without needing to manually update my settings per scan.
The reason why Simple Scan was defaulting to JPEG format previously was because I was scanning as an 'Image' rather than as 'Text'. I didn't see that there were options under the main 'Scan' menu item to optimise for either 'Images' or 'Text'.
gImageReader is a simple GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr.
sudo apt-get install gimagereader tesseract-ocr
sorry for the german text
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The idea of having a simple scan utility was behind the development of, well, Simple Scan - the scanning tool installed by default from 10.04 on (Applications ‣ Graphics ‣ Simple Scan).
Simply scan as many pages as you want and choose PDF as file format when saving.
Another slightly less simple program that offers additional features like text recognition is gscan2pdf, also in the repositories.